first edition Full Leather
1732 · London
by Eustace Budgell
London: W. Mears, 1732. The Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Eustace Budgell's account. "Budgell had become one of the Grub Street authors...[and] was also protected by the Earl of Orrery, the editor of 'Phalaris,' who had been arrested on suspicion of Jacobitism in 1722, and was hostile to Walpole's government" [DNB, Vol. 7, p. 225]. Bound in later calf with morocco label and new endpapers; engraved frontispiece. (ESTC T97292). Very Good binding. (Inventory #: 279070)